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that's really cool GOO
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2021 POTD Thread Archive
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A friend of mine decides he needs a Niva in his life. He search for a good one for couple of months and finally found this one. Almost bought it on the spot but the seller seam a bit quick, so he told him let take it to my friends house for him to see it. He agreed and they come when i opened the small garage and he seen the inspection pit he become in a big hurry. I ignored him and inspected it, wow it has lots of things wrong. It isn't charging the battery, the rear diff is very loose and is leaking, the pinion bearing is on its way out, one of the rear brake drum is cracked in half, the rear drive shaft is bent and dented, catalytic converter is missing, some one welded in a resonator in its place, gearbox is leaking on both ends, engine mount is missing its washer and nut, causing the other mount to get ripped. He was representing it as a low mileage perfect shape niva, i showed my friend all the defects to say he was upset is an understatement, in fact he grabbed the seller by the neck, throw him in the passenger seat and they took off. I hate situations like this, car flippers that sell bad vehicles and take advantage of normal people. My friend is a head taller than me, heavy as me and all muscle and has a bit of a temper, guy selling that niva mess with the wrong guy.
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Finally finished up one wall of shelving in the welding shop. Lots of neanderthal metal bending, drilling, and riveting. 1/8" diamond plate from some old roll out tool boxes I built for my service truck many years ago, in conjunction with a truck box my renter left behind. Just added a shelf to make it a little more useful. Kind of fun to get this done, as I've been spending most of my time dealing with my well, which has given up the ghost. Cheers, Mike
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Knowing his temper, i did call his wife, then him, he did not buy it and the seller is alive and well, i've seen the advert on the net got pull down. He could be rewriting it a bit more honestly.
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Something a little different today, trying to break things instead of make things. Wanted to test how strong the lock mechanism is on this new knife design. Tried to test it similar to how BladeHQ did in one of their videos. Only, all I had handy was body weight. Bottom line, I think it is strong enough for heavy knife use and stronger than some other knives on the market today.
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The centring scope I got from eBay has been stripped, cleaned - optics too - and then the body was repainted. The body was primed in self etch primer (the body seems to be aluminium or some sort other lightweight castable metal) and then finished in matt black. All of the fasteners have been cleaned and tidied up, and all tapped holes have had an appropriate tap run into them to clean them out.
Reassembiy was the reverse of dismantlement, as they say in every car maintenance manual ever.
The above image is of the prism block being reinserted into the body - it has a threaded hole to allow you to adjust it roughly in the body - fine adjustment is done via two set screws and the angled brass block you can see in the other pics riding on the sloped underside of the arbor cap.
Those setscrews are the upper of the ones in the above pic - the lower one and it's twin on the other side adjust the x axis alignment.
These setscrews on the lower part of the scope set the y axis alignment. To set the alignment back to be true after all the cleaning and re-assembly, i took a small spotting drill and did a light peck at some stock I had. I then set the scope in the quill and lowered the head until I had the mark it had made in focus. Then it was just a case of adjusting the screws until I had the cross hairs on the centre of the mark made by the drill.
To verify that this was all OK, I then took the stock out, centre punched it and re positioned the table until I had that aligned under the scope. After removing it, I put in a drill chuck and with a small normal drill, checked if we where on target and bingo - I was.
Pretty please with how its turned out. Still don't know what make it is. It's old - maybe 60's or 70's? I suspect it's European, or maybe ex-Soviet as all the fasteners are metric.
Reassembiy was the reverse of dismantlement, as they say in every car maintenance manual ever.
The above image is of the prism block being reinserted into the body - it has a threaded hole to allow you to adjust it roughly in the body - fine adjustment is done via two set screws and the angled brass block you can see in the other pics riding on the sloped underside of the arbor cap.
Those setscrews are the upper of the ones in the above pic - the lower one and it's twin on the other side adjust the x axis alignment.
These setscrews on the lower part of the scope set the y axis alignment. To set the alignment back to be true after all the cleaning and re-assembly, i took a small spotting drill and did a light peck at some stock I had. I then set the scope in the quill and lowered the head until I had the mark it had made in focus. Then it was just a case of adjusting the screws until I had the cross hairs on the centre of the mark made by the drill.
To verify that this was all OK, I then took the stock out, centre punched it and re positioned the table until I had that aligned under the scope. After removing it, I put in a drill chuck and with a small normal drill, checked if we where on target and bingo - I was.
Pretty please with how its turned out. Still don't know what make it is. It's old - maybe 60's or 70's? I suspect it's European, or maybe ex-Soviet as all the fasteners are metric.
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Wow Mike!
That tool shelf is fantastic.........and the contents of it show how organized and prepared you are!
-brino